Alberta History 1946-1953

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1946

Edmonton's population is one hundred and thirteen thousand, and Calgary had a population of one hundred thousand.

The war chemicals produced at Suffield, Alberta were dumped into the Atlantic Ocean with no regard to their environmental impact. Some suggest this might be a factor in the decline of cod fish.

The Jesuit College is converted to the Charles Camsell Hospital to deal with the Arctic and North West Territories Natives who are considered beyond hope. It is the only institution of its kind on the continent.


1947

The war chemicals produced at Suffield, Alberta were dumped into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia with no regard to their environmental impact.

January 11: The Athabasca River Tar Sands potential is finally appreciated, two hundred and sixty nine years after its discovery by the Nor'wester in 1778.

February 13: At four o'clock P.M., Dry Hole Hunter spudded the second well in Leduc, Alberta, confirming the beginning of the Alberta oil rush. They invited a crowd of five hundred to witness the event, which is very unusual for the highly conservative, Imperial Oil Limited. Rumor has it that Head Office had ordered Hunter to stop drilling on the first well but he practices civil disobedience to bring in the famous well.

1948

(IV)-Philip Salzl returned from the north, moving in across the road on 80th street in Edmonton. He began working for the police department. He told stories of his trapping days where they had to run forty to sixty miles per day on snowshoes. His generation believes that every boy should learn how to shoot, so we are taken out to the Salzl farm for target practice. He would set up spent cartridges for target practice. At twenty five to fifty feet we are trained to hit the top of the spent cartridges so that it would make them whistle.

August: Imperial Oil Limited began its Edmonton refinery at Clover Bar by dismantling the Whitehorse refinery and shipping it down to Edmonton.

1950

Research suggests that the sperm count of men born after this date has plummeted 22 to 42 percent. The sperm count of men during the 1920's, 1930's and into the late 1940's was fairly consistent and normal. Men born in the 1950's and 1960's show the largest drop, for unknown reasons. Many suggest it is the chemicals in our food chain. Others suggest its atomic bomb fall out that is spanning the globe.

Anti-Semitism is mainstream in Canada. It is respectable, no one apologized for being anti-Jewish. It was heard in Parliament, read in the press and taught in the schools and churches. It has existed in Canada for the past 400 years. Anti-Indian and anti-Metis attitudes are also mainstream, as is anti-Asian.

I can recall as a youngster riding my bicycle out to the site of old Fort Edmonton. This Hudson Bay Company fort was located on the north side of the Saskatchewan river across from the the town of Fort Saskatchewan, near the mouth of the Sturgeon river. We used to go in the spring after the farmer plowed his fields, in search of Indian arrow heads. We never failed to discover 3 or 4 arrow heads. The North West Company Fort was south near Fort Saskatchewan before moving to Edmonton.

The 1950's was a decade of enchantment, called the 'Greaser Days' for the duck tail hair cuts, held in place by hair grease. It was the time of crinolines, bobby socks, penny loafers and maiden form bras. It was a time when girls put on a tight pair of jeans, sat in hot water, in a bath tub, then allowed them to shrink dry on their body. However underlying this age of innocence was the 'Cold War', the threat of the 'Atomic War' that would end all wars, and as the decade ended the book 'The Ugly American' was published as a best seller. People began building bomb shelters and stocking them with supplies for the inevitable 'Third World War'.

The term redeye appears to be created in Alberta this decade for a drink of beer mixed with tomato juice. It more recently has been applied to redeye in photos.

May 5-19: A flood of the Red River in Manitoba killed one person and forced 100,000 people from their homes.

December: Inter-Provincial Pipeline completed a one thousand, one hundred and twenty nine mile pipeline to Lake Superior. Hard on its heels was a seven hundred and eighteen mile pipeline to the West Coast, the Trans-Mountain Pipeline. Oil would dominate the latter half of this century, as the car becomes a necessity.



1951

The British American Oil Company completed its refinery at Clover Bar, east of Edmonton, and a few months later McColl-Frontenac came on- stream across the road from the Imperial Oil refinery.

The F.B.I. started a file on Pierre Trudeau (1919-2000) being convinced he was a Communist. It is noteworthy that during World War II Trudeau was seen wearing a Nazi uniform in Quebec.

The United States of America with Cuban exiles invades Cuba at the Bay of Pigs and are defeated.

June 1: The census of the west is: B.C. 1,165,210, Alberta 939,501, Saskatchewan 831,728, Manitoba 776,541, N.W.T. 16,004 and Yukon 9,096.

July 10: Canada formally ended its war with Germany.



1952

The Roman Catholic school system practiced a form of masochism that was encouraged by the priests and nuns of that institution. The rational used to justify the brutality is that a third world war is inevitable and this will prepare us and make us strong and true. We are required to run the gauntlet where ten to twenty kids line up, half to a side. The person selected is required to run between the rows, trying to avoid being hit with open hand or fist. Each person has the opportunity to dispense one hit per run. If a boy refused to run the gauntlet, he was labeled a coward and tied to a pole for up to two hours to humiliate him. Respect for authority is taught with a smack to the face by a rugged ball with sufficient enough force to knock the boy to the ground. A smack on the back of the head, a twist of a lock of hair or of the ear is routinely applied. The strap is in continuous use from grade one to nine. Complaining of brutality to ones' parents usually resulted in a whipping at home.

During a visit to Moscow, USSR Pierre Trudeau (1919-2000) told a senior United States diplomat that he was a communist confirming their suspicions about his political beliefs in 1951. The United States classified Pierre Trudeau (1919-2000) as an idealist naive, with an infantile desire to shock, that could be damaging. At this time Pierre Trudeau (1919-2000) heaped praise on Russia and scorn on the USA. It is worth noting that the Liberal Prime Minister, Jean Chretien of the twenty first century, has said that he idealized this man.

The Bohemian Maid Brewery alias 1924 Northwest Brewing Company, alias 1907 Strathcona Brewing and Malting Co., alias 1894 Ochsner Brewery was located below Saskatchewan Drive, 10542 Fort Hill, Edmonton, in a park, on a hill, with no railway service.

The USSR-Cuban Missile Crisis leads the USA to the brink of WW III.

1953

William Andrew Cecil Bennett (1900-1979) ordered the R.C.M.P. to snatch 170 children, aged 6-15, from the Sons of Freedom, a sect of Doukhabor, in an attempt to compel them to attend Public School. Many of these children's parents had also been interned in the 1930's. Some spent nearly 5 years in these prison schools. It is worth while to note how easily we can take the kidnapping and internment of the Indian children and apply it to European children. Child welfare continues to use the same strategy, even to this day, but now it’s the poor British, French and other ethnic people. Next it will be ‘you or your children’ so don’t be surprised. It is noteworthy that according to the United Nations Genocide Convention of 1948 the forcible transferring of children from one group to another is Genocide. W.A.C. Bennet (1900-1979) is just following the Christian Churches public policy that has been employed for the past 300 years against the Native Peoples of Canada.

Doctor Ewen Cameron, of Montreal , a psychiatrist at McGill University, is considered by many to be a 'Mad Scientist' who conceived an evil plan to conduct mind altering drug experiments on prison inmates and the general public. Mad Cameron was originally financed by the CIA and, later, the Canadian Government. Mad Cameron also requested the support of Doctor Louis Gendreau, the infamous Deputy Commissioner of Penitentiary Services. Dr Prter Roper was also a colleague involved in this evil research. The CIA was sued by 9 former inmates and these inmates were awarded $750,000.00. The Canadian Government blocked the victoms fight for justice and would only pay $100,000.00 to dozens of former inmates. The told numbers are not known but are believed to number in the hundreds. Cameron and Roper destroyed the minds on innocent Canadians including the wife of a member of parliament. Cameron termed his sadistic research as beneficial brainwashing.

Oil production, of one hundred and ninety eight million dollars, exceeded gold production, of one hundred and forty million dollars, for the first time. This was a significant milestone.

The Catholic Church reverses its long-standing, early marriage policy by calling on all parents to discourage the pernicious custom of boys and girls, in their early teens, forming permanent and exclusive steady associations, that are so often an occasion for sin. Most church members largely ignore these ridiculous pronouncements. Some historians recalled a time, in New France, when it was a most grievous sin not to be married by 16 for girls and 18 for men. The Church imposed a fine on fathers of such wayward offspring. It was common for girls to get married at age 9 or 10 in early Canada.

The Government began enforcing their assimilation policy against the Sons of Freedom. About 170 children are hunted down like wild animals and forced into a Residential School in New Denver. These children are imprisoned in a type of concentration camp until 1959. Making the children wards of the state justified this Nazi type of internment in the Governments mind. Law suites would eventually be filed in 2001.

A Native woman named Bella Twin, age 63, near Lesser Slave Lake shot one of the biggest grizzly bears on record. She killed the animal with a bullet to the right eye. Some say it was from a range of three feet. Other stories suggest she used a single shot, twenty-two caliber, short rabbit gun and used twelve shots to bring down the attacking bear. What ever the truth it makes for great story telling.

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